Holder for detergent



March 7, 1961 G. B. REILLY ETAL HOLDER FOR DETERGENT Filed July 1s, 1959 Inventor;

@an 1e* United States Patent HOLDER FOR DETERGENT George Buckham Reilly, Chapeltown, near 'Sheliield, Edward Jollasse Miles, Shellield, Tom Bennett Lewis, Moreton, and Francis George Melsher, Liverpool, England, assignors to Newton, Chambers & Company Limited Filed July 13, 1959, Ser. No. 826,630

Claims priority, application Great Britain July 16, 1958 7 Claims. (Cl. 4528) This invention relates to holders for detergents.

The common ways of introducing a detergent into a bowl of water for household purposes, and particularly for washing up, are to pour it into the bowl lin liquid form or to add it to the water as powder.' It has previously been appreciated that it would be advantageous to provide a solid annular block of detergent around a stick, and to immerse the block while holding the stick so as to dissolve some of the block in the water.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved holder for such a s-olid block of detergent.

Broadly stated, in our invention a holder for a block of detergent with a central hole comprises a cage for the block and a rod extending through the cage from one end to the other to pass through the central hole in the block and to extend outwards as a handle. The cage is made in two parts separable to allo-w a block to be pu around the rod. g t

In use the cage containing a block is immersed in water and used as a stirrer so that some of the block is dissolved. It is desirable that the block should lit loosely around the rod so that it will move within the cage during this stirring operation and the water will have access to the surface of the central hole in it as well as to its outer surface. j

The holder is advantageously as light as possible, and the rod serves to strengthen a light construction, to prevent the block from damaging the wall of the cage during the shaking and to form the handle by which the holder "is held.

Some holders according to this invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the anallow the water better access to the walls of the hole., A ange 1`4'is formed at the bottom of the rod and two? small studs 12 project from the surface of the tiutes 13" at a short distance from the flange to engage the rim* and the socket 1S of the top part 4 makes a force fit A over the flutes 15. Y

I'he holder will normally be kept in an upright position on, say, a draining board, and will rest on the end of the cage remote from the handle. This part of the cage may advantageously have an upturned rim as shown A at 11 to hold the concentrated solution of detergent which is likely to form by drainage.

The fact that the basket-like parts 4 are identical facilitates manufacture. However, two parts dilfering in` construction may be used, one example being shown in Figure 3. Here the shaft 19 is secured to a bottom basket part 20 in the mannerl already described. The bottom part 26 now constitutes an openwork bucket for a block of detergent not shown, and the top part 21 a lidv for the bucket. The part 21 has a central hole enabling it to slide'freely over the shaft 19, and has a downward-projecting cylindrical outer skirt 22. This skirt is formed with a groove 23, which receives a raised edge 24 projecting outwards from the upper rim 25 of thepalt 20 and so secures the two parts together.

Figure 3 is an axial section through'a modification of vfrom the bases 5 so that the holder rests on the bosses when it is stood upright on alevel surface.

The rod 1 is a unit separate from the cage and comprises a iiuted handle part 9 having a hole 10 at one end so that it can be hung up. The part of the rod within thecage passes through the hole in the middle of the block` 3.

increase the abrasive action between the block and the rod when the holder isvshaken in water, and so as to FlutesV 13 forming a cruciform section are .t

formed on the ksurface of this part of the rod so as to ,70v

In the holder of Figure 4 two parts 26 and 27 are shown similar to those seen in Figures 1 and 2, but the bottom part 26 is moulded in one piece with the rod 28, and lboth parts have tabs 29 projecting from the inward edges of the rim 30. The tips of the tabs of one part lit within, and round the rim of, the other when the holder is assembled, and thus help to key the two parts together. The base` of the part 26 is perforated by holesv 31 through which liquid can drain from the holder when the latter is stood upright on the base.

Other modifications may be made. For instance, the Irod may be composite, the handle part being detachably secured to the part that passes through the block.

The block shown is made in one piece and so must be pushed over the rod, but it can be divided axially and the two parts can be held together in any convenient Way, e.g. by an elastic band, so that together they form a block.

We claim:

1. A holder for a block of detergent, having a hole through the middle, said holder comprising a cage for the block and a rod extending through the cage from one end to the other to pass through the hole in the block,

making contact with each end of the cage and extending outwards as a handle, the cage being made in twoparts separable to allow the block to be put round vthe rod.

2. A holder according to claim l in which the end of the rod enters a socket in the part of the cage remote from the handle. l

3.. A holder according to claim l in which the part of the Cage nearer the handle makes a force t with the rod.

4. A holder according to claim 1 in which projections are formedon the rod where the block ts over it, so asto increase the abrasive action between the block and the rod.

5. A holder according to claim 1 in which bosses are formed on the bottom ofthe cage.

6. A holder for a block of detergent, having a hole through the middle comprising two identical cage parts,

each having a base with a central socket and openwork Patented Mar. "7, 1961.A I

sides, and a rod passing through the hole in the block References Cited in the le of this patent and engaging both sockets and extending outwards at one end to form a handle. UNITED STATES PATENTS 7. A holder according to claim 6 in which the end of 622,873 Welch Apr. 11, 1899 the rod passes through the socket in the part of the cage 5 979,038 Seiler Dec. 20, 1910 remote from the handle and has a flange engaging the 1,473,783 Douglas Nov. 13, 1923 outer surface of this cage part. 

